Agile coach
Location: SE, AB, Stockholm
Employment type: Contract
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Eviture is a professional services firm that specialise in leading enterprise agile delivery for complex business and IT challenges, with on-shore, near-shore and offshore team members working in collaboration. We work across all levels within organisations to enable business agility for our clients.We work with clients from vision and concept to delivery to ensure that programmes and projects start off right. At a fundamental level, it requires a significant change in mind-set, culture and approach. Collaboration is becoming increasingly important inside the business: empowering every member of staff to deliver the promise that you’re making to your customers. Collaboration with customers and employees is vital to success. This transformation can be very challenging, particularly for large hierarchical organisations with a long history of traditional delivery.We help organisations and their people adjust to change, whether it is processes that need integrating into existing work habits or a strategic direction that depends on the understanding and support of stakeholders. With the right leadership and engagement, lean and agile can transform the future of a business and the people that form part of it. To support this, we build high-performance teams and highly collaborative environments spanning multiple locations, including near-shore and offshore.Eviture Resources focus on finding the right people for the right tasks for Eviture, and occasionally for clients with special needs.Our contact number is +44 20 3637 0415.

Job description:
Eviture is a professional services firm that specialise in leading enterprise agile delivery for complex business and IT challenges, with on-shore, near-shore and offshore team members working in collaboration. We work across all levels within organisations to enable business agility for our clients. We are a team of passionate, hard-working agile enthusiasts. We just love what we do.The opportunityWe are looking for those who share our passion. We are looking for exceptional agile professionals with excellent interpersonal, communication and technical skills with the ability to effectively engage with a global stakeholder community. You need to have good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, mentoring, situational awareness and conflict resolution. You will need to understand and appreciate the adaptation of the agile manifesto, the Scrum framework, Extreme Programming practices, the software craftsmanship manifesto, a DevOps mind set, and lean and Kanban.You will need to be a business focused people person doing whatever is required to make things happen as opposed to wanting to hide behind process.We are looking for applicants who have a passion for working side-by-side with customers and experience in coaching agile and lean concepts within scaled and near-shore and offshore environments, creating cross-functional, high-performance teams working to a strong agile ethos. We also encourage our coaches to pursue specialised areas of interest in their training, curriculum development, writing, public speaking, and thought leadership work. Our customer base is rapidly expanding, and we are now looking for both permanent staff and for contract associates. Due to current engagements, we especially value applicants based in London, Stockholm, Berlin and Amsterdam.What we expect from youA cultural change agent that champion and embody the agile mindset across both business and development teams, leading by example with the right behaviours.Be utterly pragmatic and resisting all urges to rely on dogmatic principles that you read or heard somewhere.Proactively collaborate, anticipate and manage impediments and risks, enabling the teams to deliver on the promises they make. You’ll be expected to model the facilitation skills that make agile collaboration work.Ability to be instrumental in defining and shaping how agile can be adopted within an organisation and manage the associated risks.Promote, motivate and create an environment of team spirit, enthusiasm, communication, collaboration, trust, transparency and confidence in the teams’ abilities to achieve success.Help the teams establish and abide by a set of 'norms' that help them govern their behaviours and interactions.Promote learning, experimentation and knowledge sharing and encourage creativity and help the teams to continuously challenge the ways of working to ensure continuous improvement of process and behaviour through regular reflection and adaptation.Own and facilitate agility, responsible for enacting agile values and practices while advocating and influencing the adoption of agile methodologies to achieve time-to-value objectives.Work with other agile professionals to examine organisational impediments, to achieve a consistent framework across various delivery teams and to recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice.Facilitate and encourage discussions to create consensus agreement and binding decisions and actively work on discouraging a blame culture, resolve conflict between people and promoting cohesiveness in the team to achieve common goals.Collaborate with the Product Owner to maintain a strategic product roadmap, facilitate the creation of Release Plans, coach the Product Owner with prioritisation, ordering and planning so that regular releases achieve strategic goals that fulfil parts of the product vision, feed back to the Product Owner on the readiness of the backlog items and assist the Product Owner and the team to identify and articulate acceptance criteria that capture the details of user stories.Develop a relationship with the business such that the team and the business act as one unit and communicate effectively with all levels of staff throughout the end-to-end delivery chain, building and maintaining effective relationships.Note to Applicants – we have has a 4-12 week interview cycle. This is due to our collaborative hiring model and coordinating interviews with the coaching staff’s travel schedules. If you have a specific hiring timeframe, please highlight this in your cover letter.

Requirements:
Essential criteriaExperience in leading migration from traditional waterfall methodologies to agile with a proven ability to work in complex working environments as an instigator of change and have demonstrable experience of driving change through influencing, coaching ability to fail fast, ability to adapt to new challenges and a track record that demonstrates helping teams and individuals become agile through care, consideration and collaboration.Track record of working with very senior level management within a large organisation with the emotional intelligence to guide customers in launching agile teams, programs, and portfolios in large organisations and an active and conscious awareness of the environment, sensing and anticipating situations and being able to ask the right questions at the right time.Shown the willingness and capability to integrate agile projects and programmes within wider, more traditional parts of an Client organisation.Experience of recognising and addressing barriers to the successful adoption of agile in large and/or complex organisations/situations.Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse personality types with good listening, verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to analyse and communicate technical issues, lead discussions, create practical solutions and influence decisions to build consensus on solution design and delivery.Strong personal impact and good relationship building and communication skills with the ability to establish credibility with people very quickly, inspire confidence, respect and positive action to achieve common goals and ability to work with diverse personality types with good listening, verbal and written communication skills.A persistent energising and motivating influence, demonstrably putting people first, passionate about quality and agility and experience growing and facilitating highly motivated and capable teams to deliver innovative software products.Proven experience of facilitating end to end delivery and instigating and encouraging close collaboration with distributed teams (offshore, near-shore and on-shore) and cooperation across all roles and functions. Our customers trust our expertise and approaches that result in organisational change.Light-touch servant leadership (not as a Project Manager) that employs a highly collaborative approach and situational awareness to guide people without controlling them but employing authority when the situation requires, being all about leadership and people, not management and resources.Dynamic, charismatic leader (not manager) who has demonstrated the ability to challenge the status quo, recognise and accept genuine constraints and to drive change.Nice to havePrior consulting background. You will be working with multiple clients through on-site collaboration and remote support.Experience leading consulting engagements.Sales experience, working with account teams and sales teams on a frequent basis to deliver value to our customers and contribute to ongoing relationship management activities.Hands-on experience from continuous deployment.Willingness to travel. We work with clients across the EU and we frequently help our customers succeed by being in the right places at the right time.QualificationsTertiary qualifications are essential, preferably IT and/or business at a post-graduate level.Scrum certification from Scrum Alliance or #URL_eb33f3e87ac1203366e8701171cb1ef8a42857099f85613b3b7f029ffb751723#.10+ years or more experience in technology/software organisations.More than 5 yrs experience with leading and coaching agile teams, able to communicate at all levels of an organisation - from C suite down to all levels of the delivery team.

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